Research Interests
- Cognition & Cognitive Development
- Language Production and Comprehension
- Language Development
- Compilation and Analysis of Naturalistic Language Corpora (Speech, Text, Child-Directed Speech)
Research Description
I study how language abilities emerge with experience across the lifespan, including language comprehension, production, and reading. I use varied methods and measures, including language comprehension and production experiments in adults and children, compilation and analyses of text and speech corpora, and advanced quantitative methods.
Education
PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Assistant Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Center for Social & Behavioral Science
Recent Publications
Patel, T. N., Marasli, Z. B., Choi, A., & Montag, J. L. (2025). An Online Survey of Picture Book Reading Practices with Children Between the Ages of 0 and 30 Months. Language Learning and Development, 21(1), 74-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2024.2372245
Flores, A. Z., Montag, J. L., & Willits, J. A. (2023). Using known words to learn more words: A distributional model of child vocabulary acquisition. Journal of Memory and Language, 132, Article 104446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2023.104446
Stoops, A., & Montag, J. L. (2023). Effects of individual differences in text exposure on sentence comprehension. Scientific reports, 13(1), Article 16812. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43801-8
Macbeth, A., Atagi, N., Montag, J. L., Bruni, M. R., & Chiarello, C. (2022). Assessing language background and experiences among heritage bilinguals. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 993669. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.993669
Macbeth, A., Bruni, M. R., de la Cruz, B., Erens, J. A., Atagi, N., Robbins, M. L., Chiarello, C., & Montag, J. L. (2022). Using the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) to Capture the Day-to-Day Linguistic Experiences of Young Adults. Collabra: Psychology, 8(1), Article 36310. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.36310